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Here are items of interest to Educators—both formal and informal.
Kepler in a Nutshell—what the Kepler mission is about, in simple terms.
 Interactive Diagram of
ALL Kepler Education and
Public Outreach
Projects
Classroom Activities on Planet Finding.
Kepler Star Wheels [created March 2008]
Kepler Speakers Bureau—to request a speaker from the Kepler team for an event you are planning.
General Information
Models and Simulations
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Solar System Transit
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Educator's Links and Other Interactive Planet Detection Activities
- Astro-Venture
An educational, interactive, multimedia Web environment where students in grades 5-8 role-play NASA occupations, as they search for and build a planet with the necessary characteristics for human habitation.
- Celestia—an open source, real time and space simulation. Tour the solar system. As open source - objects can be added. Extrasolar systems could be added. Time element can be speeded up to observe planetary orbits, moons' orbits.
- Interactive Science Activities on the Web
at Bridgewater College, VA. This is a web-based version of a portion of the Kepler interactive simulator program to detect planets described at the top of this web page. It includes a classroom activity plan based on the web site.
- Kepler's Discovery website (http://www.keplersdiscovery.com) is an educational adventure into the concepts, thought processes and consequences of Kepler's discoveries. It provides an excellent supplement to secondary school and college classes on astronomy, mathematics and the history of science.
- Planet Quest—The Search for Another Earth an overview of exoplanet search programs at JPL.
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Pretty Pictures:
Click on this picture for higher resolution image of the Kepler spacecraft
 Kepler in the News
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